2000s Things Millennials Loved Doing
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Complaining about how you hated that TRL wouldn’t play an entire music video (except for like the top three):
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Nothing was worse than when TRL would cut in the middle of a music video you liked just so they could show a bunch of screaming teens that you could barely even understand.
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Making a mix CD for your BFF or crush:
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And carefully decorating the CD with a Sharpie — as well as giving it a clever album title.
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Bragging about what movies you had on your Netflix DVD queue:
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It was also about constantly checking your queue, too, to see when your DVD was coming!
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Coming up with a clever and racy email address as your first “official” address:
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Taking a group selfie like this on a flip phone:
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Truly, you and your friends had it down to an art form.
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Taking a mirror selfie like this — with the camera flash going off:
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Playing Cranium with your friends or family:
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Seriously, it was the best game ever!
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Emailing your friends a link to a viral video you found funny — usually with the subject line, “Watch this video!”:
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Remember when you had to share videos over email?!
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Making sure you had your digital camera so that you could document everything (and be able to share the photos with your friends later):
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And usually you would give your friends CDs you burned with all the photos of you guys together!
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Having a cool case for your camera:
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You really had to protect that camera ’cause they weren’t cheap!
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Also having a cool case for your iPod:
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‘Cause an iPod truly wasn’t cheap, and one unfortunate drop and it could be GAME OVER!
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Creating Sims characters based on your friends and crushes:
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And trying to be low-key, ’cause you didn’t want your siblings to figure it out if they played your game.
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Composing a text — that included everything you wanted to say — in 160 characters or fewer:
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Shutting your flip phone hard and getting that satisfying noise and the “BITCH, BYE” feeling inside:
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Listen, I love my iPhone, but that is a feeling I’ve been missing since 2007.
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Wearing pants that were super long and dragged all over the ground:
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Jean/pant hems in the 2000s were ripped and so dirty (and even after you washed them, the bottoms were still filthy).
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Going with your friends to Jamba Juice (or any juice bar) for smoothies:
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And having that internal debate of just what “Boost” you needed that day whenever you went to Jamba.
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Calling any guy who was even vaguely into grooming a “metrosexual”:
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Honestly, it was just a dumb buzzword.
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Finding a good-quality MP3 (non-radio rip) of a new song you wanted on LimeWire:
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Buying studded belts from Hot Topic:
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Sure, it was the place to get band tees and Nightmare Before Christmas stuff, but it was also the most reliable place to score studded belts and the all-too-ubiquitous white leather belt.
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Getting belt buckles with your name or phrases on it:
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Uploading photos and making a bunch of photo albums on Photobucket:
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Back when you had to upload photos onto your computer from your camera, then upload them onto a site (as your computer struggled not to crash from the file sizes).
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Being obsessed with doing Sudoku puzzles:
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Destroying someone in a poking war:
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Using the Photo Booth Warhol-esque photo filter to death:
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Reading the LiveJournal of a classmate (whom you had a crush on or whom you hated) so that you could low-key snoop on their life:
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But let’s be real: Most of the time, it was boring.
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Hearing the squeaky-door-opening noise and seeing that your friend was logging on to AIM:
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Nothing like seeing your friend on AIM and being able to chat with them, even if you had just seen them 30 minutes earlier at school.
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Going to Subway and making sure you collected your Sub Club sticker:
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Although half the time, you forgot your card and had to get a new one (which led to your having several cards that were partially filled).
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Getting free Pick of the Week cards from Starbucks:
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Even if they weren’t songs you wanted, they were still free!
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And finally, lying on Myspace and saying your age was 99 years old:
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Listen, there was no real reason we did this; it was just funny to us!
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